[mythtv-users] Commercial-skip stops skipping after skip-back/forward

[Craig Ghareeb]

I'll apologize in advance for being long-winded, but I've been experiencing a strange commercial-skip symptom with the following reproduction procedure:

1.  A program is recorded, and commercial flagging is automatically run on it
2.  After commercial flagging has completed, I begin watching the program (Auto-Skip is enabled)
3.  At flag#1, a skip occurs as predicted, the bottom banner shows the skip interval, and program play continues at flag#2
4.  At flag#3, a skip occurs as predicted, the bottom banner shows the skip interval, and program play continues at flag#4.
5.  Within a second of the skip to flag#4, I question whether the skip was accurate because the scene didn't seem to be over, and so I issue a Skip-Back IR command (or keyboard "Q")
6.  The program skips back to flag#3 and continues playing.  A-ha, there were a few extra seconds of show after the flag but before the commercial, glad I skipped back.  Now the remainder of the scene has played and the commercial has begun.  Because I know that flag#4 is in the right place at the end of the commercial break (I saw the skip a minute ago), I issue a Skip-Forward IR command (or keyboard "Z").
7.  The program skips forward to flag#4 and continues playing.
8.  At flag#5 and subsequent flags in this program, no skip nor notification occurs.

Note that if, during a repeat of the same procedure, I issue a jump-ahead (right-arrow) or jump-back (left-arrow) IR command between step 7 and step 8, then behavior returns to normal when flag#5 and subsequent flags occur (i.e. a skip occurs).

I don't pretend to understand the flagger's logic, nor the frontend's ability to turn those flags into a commercial-free watching experience (which it does AWFULLY well), but it seems like this behavior is unintended.  Has anyone experienced similar?

Craig
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